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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

New handle alert! @/lawsonvee.bsky.social > @vee.northsky.social I'm changing back to my original name and taking this time to update my digital spaces

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 01/09/2026

Saw Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma last night, and 1) I will now watch anything Jane Schoenbrun makes and 2) across her work, Hannah Einbinder is living every lesbian's wish fulfillment dream

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If you have so much work to do that you feel you need AI in order to get it all done: you don't. You need a union.

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 24/07/2026

Shame on @ncte.org for this decision and the process by which it was reached

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 15/07/2026

A surprisingly cohesive palette, given the chaotic sign combinations

My Pantone Birth Chart Palette
Pisces Sun, Aries Moon, Leo Rising, Aries Venus. Colors: #5E9FAD #C84632 #F6B43D #F07B63.
SUN
Pisces Sun
Dream Lagoon
MOON
Aries Moon
Ember Pulse
#5E9FAD
Closest Pantone match: 2219 C
RGB 94, 159, 173
#C84632
Closest Pantone match: 7619 C
RGB 200, 70, 50
RISING
Leo Rising
Marigold Flash
VENUS
Aries Venus
Spiced Coral
#F6B43D
Closest Pantone match: 143 C
RGB 246, 180, 61
#F07B63
Closest Pantone match: 2434 C
RGB 240, 123, 99
pantonecolors.net/pantone-birth-chart
Independent Pantone-inspired palette tool. Not affiliated with Pantone LLC.

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 07/07/2026

Have they tried taking notes from the USWNT?

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 25/06/2026

Yosemite NP, Ektar 100, Olympus XA1 John Muir Trail from Happy Isles to Donohue Pass, June 2026 📍 Yosemite National Park, California, US #GrainSocial grain.social/profile/did:plc:qte44o…

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 25/06/2026

@grain.social is there a way to set the camera description when posting a new gallery? The browser version keeps assigning a random camera to my galleries and there's no edit to change it.

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 25/06/2026

Yosemite on Cinestill, Went backpacking at Yosemite NP with half a roll of Cinestill 800T Olympus XA1 📍 Yosemite National Park, California, US #GrainSocial grain.social/profile/did:plc:qte44o…

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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

@drnikko.bsky.social and I are putting together a special issue proposal for Big Data and Society on "Trans Data"! If you're an #STS nerd, or a #transstudies nerd, or ideally both, do submit ideas if you have them - docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Big Data and Society - Trans Data CFP

Call for PapersSpecial Issue of Big Data & Society on Trans Data Data and trans lives go - both fortunately and unfortunately - together. From surveillance systems seeking to normalise and control t...

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 15/06/2026

Got back to the real world for a bit. Sunset at 10,000 feet, Yosemite Wilderness

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audriswong.com @audriswong.com · 27/05/2026

I love the library and I love data, so when I found a super clean dataset about Seattle Public Library circulation, I went data spelunking hoping I'd yield fun facts to share at parties. Turns out, it was just the beginning of a rabbit hole into a larger cultural shift in how we consume books. 1/

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Seattle, What Are You Reading?

How Seattle's shift to ebooks and recommendation engines challenges the library's mission to serve every reader.

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 25/05/2026

This one made a great train read: Medieval castle under extended siege when unexpected salvation arrives, also has bees and a sapphic love triangle/throuple

Paperback book titled The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling. The cover is medieval-ish, depicting a nun holding a frame of honeycomb. Where her face should be, there are three smaller faces, similar to cherubs in paintings.

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 22/05/2026

Attended my first session at RSA (never attended before) and heard two excellent talks on populism...and one talk that was just Covid conspiracy theories 🥴

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 08/05/2026

Apropos of the Great Canvas Ransom Situation, where are we all moving our digital course content in the future?

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 04/05/2026

the Cocodona 250 livestream is getting me through this last week of instruction (maybe someday?) Also, always excited to see Courtney Dauwalter and Rachel Entrekin in the same race again www.youtube.com/live/0AKDZ_b...

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2026 Cocodona Livestream Day 1 | Start to Crown King | Stream 1

YouTube video by Mountain Outpost

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 01/05/2026

happy chungking express day 🍍

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 01/05/2026

Missing the May Day march because I have to attend a non optional AI event and department meeting really sums up the academic labor experience, doesn't it?

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 25/04/2026

The most recent meme in your camera roll describes your current mental state

30 Rock meme:

What a world, huh?

Lemon, it's still struggling to be born.

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

May 7! Join author @hellobrittparis.bsky.social for a discussion of her book “Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up” with Mizue Aizeki, exec director of the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience, and D&S's @anthrotechana.bsky.social. datasociety.net/events/what-...

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 20/04/2026

if I can't shoehorn another PCT attempt into the next five years, I'm going to go actually feral (I've been watching this year's thru-hiking vloggers again)

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 19/04/2026

I've been trying to figure this out in my social media/digital rhetoric classes esp. as some students are shifting to radically anti-tech positions--it's hard to imagine feminist (in our case) tech futures together in class

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LX Cast @questioning.ca · 12/04/2026

Join us Wednesday for the first @folktech.bsky.social Showcase! Featuring amazing projects such as Roundabout, Semble, Mirlo, Flotilla, OpenHaven, Spacious, The Protopian Prize, Moss, Inkverse, The Governance Memory System, and more! Hosted by WorkAdventure. Register here: luma.com/h0o701wf

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Folk Tech Showcase! - April 2026 - Project Show & Tell · Luma

Folk Tech is a movement among people who want to develop apps for their community without depending on big tech companies and a community of developers making…

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

New for @404media.co - On Trans Day of Visibility, I went to an OpSec party that teaches trans people how hunt down their old data (to be less visible online) 🫥

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A 'Self-Doxing' Rave Helps Trans People Stay Safe Online

At a New York party, attendees spent Trans Day of Visibility dancing, DJing, and learning how to become less visible online.

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 08/04/2026

I'm in an AI training and learning that some doctoral programs are shifting the weighted emphasis from written dissertations towards the oral defense in order to ascertain candidate's true understanding of their field. Plato vindicated after all?

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 07/04/2026

From the CSU's systemwide survey on artificial intelligence: "About 80% of student respondents are not comfortable submitting AI-generated work as their own." But at the same time, "More than half of faculty respondents use AI to develop course materials" blogs.sjsu.edu/newsroom/202... #ainglish

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CSU Releases Findings After Conducting the Largest and Most Comprehensive Survey on Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 05/04/2026

find someone who looks at you the way Mushroom looks at a concrete balcony

A grey and white cat rolls on some concrete in early morning sun.

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 04/04/2026

Recently, I became the AI Ambassador for my department, so I made this @surf.social feed to curate news, research, & media about AI as it relates to writing I'm keeping it limited to orgs/institutional sources rather than individuals, but hopefully it's helpful to folks teachingai.surf.social

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AI News for English@SJSU by Vee Lawson on Surf

Surf - This feed curates news, research, and media about AI, focusing on writing pedagogy.

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 03/04/2026

Alas, another day, another grant rejection 🥲

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 02/04/2026

taking way too much psychic damage today [logged into LinkedIn]

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Tapping the sign

A young woman (the youtuber Strange Aeons, I believe) in a shirt, tie, vest, and party hat, in front of a microphone, with a powerpoint slide behind her that reads "The greatest research skill you can have is being a nosy bitch who wants to find out"

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 01/04/2026

A spring break project: using through my fountain pen inks sending notes to seniors through LettersAgainstIsolation.com. Today's ink is Ambiance, a mid-orange with chameleon shimmer, from the Teal Diamine Inkvent calendar.

Two envelopes addressed to Letters Against Isolation on a wooden table. The body of the envelopes is a muted French blue, and the flaps have a deep pink hydrangea design.

Today's ink: Ambiance (chameleon) from Diamine Inkvent Teal (2025). The ink is a medium orange with an orange/yellow shimmer.

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 24/03/2026

"Print lasts, and in many cases lasts longer than the file formats of digital media. ... I’ve started my own cardboard box of trans zines, saving print ephemera from this time as an act of faith in the future of trans life." electricliterature.com/the-renaissa...

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The Renaissance of the Trans Magazine - Electric Literature

Eight editors behind trans periodicals discuss trans activism and the power of t4t publications

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Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

According to this, Canvas's IgniteAI Agent will handle "low-value" tasks: "The new technology...can automate 'low-value' tasks for faculty such as rubric generation, content alignment and discussion reviews." Those are not low value, they are essential pedagogical choices that define a class. (1/3)

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 19/03/2026

I've been reading more horror books as a nice respite from The Horrors, & @steelhester.bsky.social's The Faceless Thing We Adore is possibly my favorite of the past year--cosmic queer horror & I couldn't guess the ending www.thisishorror.co.uk/look-out-for...

Book cover for Hester Steel's The Faceless Thing We Adore. A purple face covered in swirling lines dissolves into butterflies against a hot pink background.

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 19/03/2026

Love to be surveilled while walking on campus 🥴

A mobile solar-powered AI surveillance system on SJSU's campus.

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 17/03/2026

I stumbled across this talk/blog by @aendra.com on @leaflet.pub this morning, and this is exactly the kind of work I was trying to get at in my #4C26 talk--how do we build better, more resilient social media that can support us (esp. trans/queer people)? atprotocommunity.leaflet.pub/3mh7xu63f2c2...

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AHOY! 2025 - Aendra Rininsland on Queer Resilience on the Social Web - ATProto Community

AHOY! European Social Web Day in Hamburg in 2025

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 07/03/2026

So… I've been writing for about 18 years on the idea that if you somehow manage to make meaningfully conscious machine minds & then you treat them as tools, then you're enslaving those minds, and that's pretty messed up. And this ties into something else I've re-upped recently: LLMs can't say "No."

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 06/03/2026

There are still some free books and stickers left to claim! ☺️ #4C26

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 05/03/2026

Quote tweeting this from a conference in Ohio where I can't even check my DMs without verifying my age

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Vee Sweet (formerly Vee Lawson) @vee.northsky.social · 05/03/2026

I miss California already* *I'm aware of the Digital Age Assurance Act, but I think it's going to be impossible to enforce + is already receiving heavy criticism

A notice at the top of my Bluesky homepage that reads: The laws in your region require you to verify you're an adult to access certain features. Tap to learn more.

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